0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000000000000

Question

I'm trying to use a jar file in c++ program using JNI.

I did this:

// TestJavaToCpp.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include <jni.h>
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;


int main()
{
    JavaVM *jvm;
    JNIEnv *env;
    JavaVMInitArgs vm_args;
    JavaVMOption options;
    options.optionString = "-Djava.class.path=HelloWorld.jar";
    vm_args.version = JNI_VERSION_1_6;
    vm_args.nOptions = 1;
    vm_args.options = &options;
    vm_args.ignoreUnrecognized = 0;
    int ret = JNI_CreateJavaVM(&jvm, (void**)&env, &vm_args);
    if (ret == 0) {
        jclass cls = env->FindClass("HelloWorld");
        if (cls != 0) {
            jmethodID meth = env->GetStaticMethodID(cls, "Hello", "([Ljava/lang/String;)V");
            jarray args = env->NewObjectArray(0, env->FindClass("java/lang/String"), 0);
            env->CallStaticVoidMethod(cls, meth, args);
        }
    }
    return ret;
}

When HelloWorld.jar is in the same folder with the exe file. However, i keep getting the error

0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000000000000

when it tries to create the JVM.

EDIT 1: Now code looks like this:

// TestJava.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <jni.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

#define CLEAR(x) memset(&x, 0, sizeof(x))

int main()
{
    JavaVM *jvm(0);
    JNIEnv *env(0);
    JavaVMInitArgs vm_args;
    CLEAR(vm_args);
    JavaVMOption options;
    CLEAR(options);

    options.optionString = "-Djava.class.path=HelloWorld.jar";
    options.extraInfo = 0;
    vm_args.version = JNI_VERSION_1_8;
    vm_args.nOptions = 1;
    vm_args.options = &options;
    vm_args.ignoreUnrecognized = 0;
    int ret = JNI_CreateJavaVM(&jvm, (void **)&env, &vm_args);
        
    return 0;
}

I left only the code that actually creates the vm. When it'll work, I'll go on,

And now I have noticed to error that showed up before but i didn't pay attention to them:

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\amitb\OneDrive\מסמכים\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\TestJava\Debug\TestJava.exe'. Symbols loaded.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\apphelp.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vcruntime140d.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbased.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\advapi32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\user32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcrt.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\gdi32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wsock32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\winmm.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\psapi.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\version.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\winmmbase.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcr100.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rpcrt4.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cfgmgr32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ws2_32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sspicli.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cryptbase.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\bcryptprimitives.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\imm32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\bin\verify.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\bin\java.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\bin\zip.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

Exception thrown at 0x025A0202 in TestJava.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\shell32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file. 'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded

'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\windows.storage.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\combase.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\shlwapi.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel.appcore.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SHCore.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\powrprof.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'TestJava.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\profapi.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

The thread 0x2760 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x494c has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x3368 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x2e48 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x3d5c has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x3b2c has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x4490 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x3bb4 has exited with code 0 (0x0). The thread 0x4d18 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x2cac has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 0x4ec8 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The program '[18476] TestJava.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

Look on the bold sentence. This is where the exception is being thrown...

Answer 1

You need to set options.extraInfo = 0;

I would do all of this for good measure. Defensive programming demands that everything is initialized.

#define CLEAR(x) memset(&x, 0, sizeof(x))
JavaVM *jvm(0);
JNIEnv *env(0);
JavaVMInitArgs vm_args;
CLEAR(vm_args);
JavaVMOption options;
CLEAR(options);

Note:

typedef struct JavaVMOption {
    char *optionString;
    void *extraInfo;
} JavaVMOption;

EDIT: None of this turned out to be the problem. The solution is in the comments -- the JVM is throwing access violation exceptions. They are caught and handled, but not before Visual Studio leads you to believe there is a problem.